(08-06-2018 02:06 PM)Tom in Lazybrook Wrote:  

(08-06-2018 02:00 PM)thespiritof1976 Wrote:  

(08-06-2018 01:58 PM)b0ndsj0ns Wrote:  My thought process on this is real simple, if you support the rights of businesses like that cake guy and Hobby Lobby to make choices about how they want to run their private businesses then don’t cry now. This is the logical step from those decisions. You can’t force someone to bake a cake for a gay couple simply because he thinks that’s vile, well those companies think infowars is vile and don’t want to allow their services to spread those views. Either you can force companies to do things they don’t want or you can’t, pick a side and stick with it.

False argument. There is no monopoly on cake making businesses. Apple/Youtube/Facebook, etc.. have a monopoly on electronic/social media.

You can create your own social networking/video sharing platform if you'd like. No one is stopping you. Now, you might have to incur greater costs to get the same good, the option open to you might be inferior, there might not be enough of a customer base to make it commercially viable (or you late entry into the market might be much more expensive than that of the original entrants), and you might have to delay or alter what you were planning to do, but no one is stopping you from doing it.

Besides those companies have TOCs that cover stuff like Jones' rants too. You agreed to it when you hit their page. See he agreed, right. And they are just putting their values into practice by refusing to do business with people who behave poorly on their property.

See no discrimination. There's no monopoly either.

Actually, according to Obama's logic, FB, YT, Tw didn't create their social network/video sharing services on their own.

I mean, Al Gore had to invent the internet using the tax dollars of Joe American. The networking hardware & software, the computers, telephony, etc... these all were part of FB, YT and Tw.

They didn't do it on their own. By this logic, they owe their existence to AJ, and you and me and everyone else.

Which, I might add, is why we should nationalize these companies, take their reserves and their profits and split their massive fortune among all of us workers. After all, it's our backs upon which their fortunes are built!